Customer Review: I've grabbed this work based on the myriad of favourable reviews Ms LeGuin has attracted and because one word that kept appearing was how gorgeous the prose is. As someone trying to pen his own work set in Ancient times, I am keen to find writers who set the standard in terms of "prose" and I must... more info
Customer Review: Ursula LeGuin writes with style and wonderful imagination. A Wizard for Earthsea is a wonderful coming of age story that presents a lot of very wonderful lessons in personal growth and maturation without losing the core of being a story. LeGuin's Ged is a well thought out main character who's... more info
Customer Review: I recently decided to upgrade my reading selections by focusing on more widely acclaimed classics and award winning literature. Through this effort, I identified Ursula Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness". I was surprised to see that it was a Hugo and Nebula Award winner, as I was not familiar... more info
Customer Review: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Bantam, 1971) LeGuin continues her Earthsea quartet with The Tombs of Atuan, though you'll likely wonder for the first half of the novel what this has to do with A Wizard of Earthsea. (Actually, I have to admit that I'm still wondering, kind of.) The... more info
Customer Review: Another wonderful book from Le Guin. My only advice is don't give up on it too early. The book is a bit hard to follow at first because it takes place in two separate time lines that interchange from one chapter to the next (which is a great little technique, since the main character is a physicist... more info
Customer Review: I read most of the Earthsea Cycle as part of a children's literature course I did back in 1999. This is another book about Ged. But in this one he is the special educator to Lebanner/ Arren. It is a book about the big questions, such as life and death, and the search for who we are. It is also... more info
Customer Review: This book continues right from the end of The Furthest Shore. The story is slower then the other three, yet it is also much deeper. The primary themes again are being: who are we? Especially who are we after loss? For Tenar/Ghoa it is the loss of husband; for Ged the loss of power, ceasing to be a... more info
What can one say, classic is a classic. It shows once and for all that SF isn't about high-tech gadgets, exploring strange new worlds in powerful vehicles or development of new physical theory trough something that is supposed to be fiction. It shows that SF is primarily about idea, about... more info
